Cellar Door continues their ongoing project of bringing iconic Kingston locations to new theatrical life, with this charming exploration of a legendary local record shop. Energetic performances of an imaginative script in a unique setting that money couldn't have bought! Highly recommended- John Lazarus, playwright & Queen's University Professor

​Play an homage to Kingston institutionPeter Hendra in The Kingston Whig Standard April 2016 ​""So often, it’s kind of my opinion on history, we show up and say, ‘Wow, that was cool, but that was then,’ and we don’t really internalize the idea of history being in the same space we are.”..."READ MORE

"It’s February 26, 2016. The ghosts of Robert McCaffrey and Maria Spearman argue before the heavy iron doors of the gallows. Love unrequited and families ruptured. Silence punctuated by the sound of gunfire. A woman half remembered." READ MORE

Centuries collide in play Peter HendraThe Kingston Whig Standard July 2015 "By his own admission, Alex Gabov's work as a conservator is, for the most part, boring. In fact, if he does his job well, he said, no one even knows he was there in the first place.So imagine his surprise when he was asked by a local theatre troupe if he would agree to have a character based on him and his work in the site-specific play they were writing about the lower burial ground at St. Paul's Anglican Church on the corner of Queen and Montreal streets...." READ MORE

Cellar Door Project: Re-animating the past Andrew Stokes Queen's Alumni Review May 2015 "On a cool night in early March, five people huddle together, waiting for a jailbreak. They’re just a few blocks away from the soaring stone walls of Kingston Penitentiary, and though the snow’s begun to melt from the sidewalks, their breath hangs in the air as they wait. Seconds tick by until, suddenly, they hear blasts of gunfire and the shouting of guards as three escaped inmates come barrelling down the street."READ MORE

Jailhouse characters come to life Peter HendraThe Kingston Whig Standard May 2014 "A new theatre company is hoping to make the city's history come to life. This past week, the Cellar Door Project debuted its first production, The Lockup, downstairs in the old jail cells of City Hall. The half-hour, site-specific, one-act drama focuses on four actual people who spent time in the holding cells, just not at the same time. Each of the characters was incarcerated sometime between 1880 and 1910." READ MORE